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Job quality in Canada at 25-year low, says CIBC Not happy in your job? Feel like you can’t get ahead. A new study by CIBC Economics says you may have ample reason. CIBC says its index of Canadian employment quality is at a 25-year low, and nothing the Bank of Canada can do to adjust interest...

Kahnawake sends ‘open letter’ to Prime Minister saying anti-terror bill will oppress Aboriginal rights APTN National News KAHNAWAKE – The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is the latest to voice its concern over the federal government’s anti-terror legislation bill C-51. According to the letter sent...

Canadians favour taxes to curb emissions, but not at the gas pump A majority of Canadians says Canada’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases have been dismal and they want the federal government to take the lead in creating tax policies for curbing emissions, a new poll suggests. But a much...

City of Toronto launches Green P mobile parking app WATCH ABOVE: The city has announced a change in the way you can pay for public parking. The highlight of the announcement, a new mobile app. Dave Trafford explains. TORONTO – Motorists can now pay for parking in Toronto by using a mobile...

Alberta has nation's biggest wage gap for women, report says Alberta’s change to a flat-rate income tax in 2001 helped create the largest wage gap between men and women in Canada, according to a new report on gender wage and economic parity. The report, published by the University of Alberta...

With plenty of BBQ sauce. 'Why are you the most hated man in Britain?' By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline 14:08 05 Mar 2015, updated 18:53 05 Mar 2015 -Ukip leader appears on daytime TV to soften image with female voters -Panellists ask him about smoking, drinking and the...

Harper using empty rhetoric for political gain? Andrew Coyne: No need for Tories’ ‘Throw Away the Key Act’ On past form, the Conservatives’ latest piece of tough-on-crime legislation will come with some sort of folksy name attached, of a kind suitable for use in Tory ad campaigns. The Life...

I built the mystery tunnel, Toronto man tells Sun Elton McDonald has come out from underground to tell the world his hidden digs in the woods near York University was a labour of love. The gaps in the story of the mysterious 10-metre-long tunnel, as well as who dug it, are starting to be...

Parliament Hill security incidents few and tame before Oct. 22 shooting A nonsense letter. A wayward cube van. A threatening voicemail. A tractor with the key left in the ignition. These were the infrequent and minor incidents recorded by the RCMP's parliamentary detachment as threats to the...

Better luck next prez. U.S. Senate fails to override Obama's Keystone XL veto Republicans have failed to muster enough votes to overrule U.S. President Barack Obama's recent veto of a bill that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline. A vote that would have overridden Obama's recent...

Boehner Caves, Now Supports Obama's Executive Amnesty with Tax Dollars As expected, Speaker John Boehner has caved and now will support President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. On Tuesday, Boehner plans to bring to the floor of the House of Representatives a bill that funds Obama’s amnesty...

Harper's Terror Rhetoric Is Alienating Allies Nine years ago, a group of radicalized youth in Ontario hatched a plan to blow up the CN Tower, attack the CBC headquarters and storm the Parliament buildings. The so-called Toronto 18 didn't get very far. A high-profile member of the Islamic...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Canada turfed out more spies to the U.S. than elsewhere OTTAWA—New figures show Canada has turfed out five spies in the past decade from a surprising source country — its best friend and ally, the United States. From 2004 to 2014 Ottawa sent...

France wants companies to make appliances that last longer PARIS — France is ordering manufacturers to inform consumers how long they can expect their TV, cell phone or other appliance to last — before they buy it. A new French government decree that came into effect this week aims at fighting...

The terrible, horrible, no good start for the Republicans The opening weeks of the 114th Congress have been nothing short of a disaster for Republicans, who declared upon taking control of both chambers last fall that the era of governing by crisis and fiscal cliffs was over. Since their...

Next Year: Remember ISIS? Remember the U.S. Ebola crisis? The only epidemic was fear-mongering Remember the great North American Ebola hysteria of ’14? The baseless quarantines, the helicopters following the first infected American aid worker as he was taken off a plane in the United States...

Edit: I have no idea why the story was posted twice. Forget About Climate Change, America's Refineries Make Keystone XL A Bad Idea When I filled up my hybrid’s gasoline tank last week, the pump price had jumped 30 cents from my last fill-up. I said to myself, “Hmmm…something’s going on.”...

Oh the humanities. ISIS spoof stirs outrage online Dakota Johnson’s ‘SNL’ ISIS spoof stirs outrage online A “Saturday Night Live” commercial spoof is stirring outrage online over its depiction of a female high school graduate who leaves her family to join the Islamic State militant group...

Some positivity for those disheartened over the grave news about the Keystone XL pipeline. Michael Bloomberg: Keystone veto is an opportunity for Canada, rather than a loss Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | Email Michael Bloomberg, Special to National PostWednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 The...

Alberta to bleed 31,800 jobs by end of year in oil price carnage Alberta, the Canadian province holding the world’s third-largest oil reserves, expects 31,800 jobs to be lost for the remainder of the year as a crude price crash forces producers to cut costs. Suncor Energy Inc., Cenovus Energy...